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Operations Program Manager - Workforce Planning

Microsoft Power Platform Community
Redmond, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/23/2025
Overview

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day and we need you as an Operations Program Manager - Workforce Planning.

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a CO I Operations Program Manager - Workforce Planning you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform. As a group, CO I is focused on personal and professional development for all employees and offers trainings and growth opportunities including Career Rotation Programs, Diversity & Inclusion trainings and events, and professional certifications.

Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters and our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.

With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.

Do you want to empower billions across the world? Come and join us in CO I and be at the forefront of the action!

Responsibilities

As an Operations Program Manager - Workforce Planning you will:

  • Learn and live the One Microsoft culture and values.
  • Lead through change by bringing clarity, generating energy, and delivering success.
  • Provide thought leadership and subject matter expertise related to the delivery of datacenter-centric staffing services, and by exercising financial stewardship over datacenter labor budget.
  • Solve complex staffing challenges to address critical demand and supply scenarios for various roles across CO I.
  • Prepare and support quarterly and annual financial planning cycles in close collaboration with corporate, regional, and datacenter stakeholders.
  • Act on opportunities to increase staffing, recruiting, planning agility, and contribute to workstreams to evolve processes, planning accuracy, workforce-related services, and solutions for the CO I organization.
  • Drive the availability of headcount related data insights and actively participated in defining reporting requirements and staffing model changes in collaboration with data analyst team.
  • Ensure regular engagements with CO I organizations to understand policies, processes, and aim to increase self-service for routine tasks.
  • Advocate for Workforce Strategy & Planning Team (WSP) and educate leaders, people managers and CO I organizations on how the WSP Team can help them reach their business goals and execute financial plans.

As a Operations Program Manager - Workforce Planning , your day-to-day work will include:

  • Show structured thinking, operational planning, and the ability to execute by working through others, influencing without authority, and dealing with ambiguity.
  • Written and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively and concisely with stakeholders and organizational leaders about our staffing programs and objectives.
  • Gather stakeholder feedback for workforce strategy & planning services and integrate this feedback into decision making and program improvements.
  • Develop and communicate realistic timelines via plans that consider potential obstacles and immediate and long-term consequences.
  • Understand staffing and capacity related business objectives, critically review multiple plans, and adjust as needed. Proactively communicate and address necessary trade-offs.
  • Regularly scan the environment to help anticipate changes that could affect key staffing programs and projects. Effectively adjusts plans, goals, actions, or priorities to respond to changing situations.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

  • High School Qualification or equivalent AND 6 years experience providing business support for a 24x7x365 production environment.
    • OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Technical College Degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering and 12 years’ experience in Critical Environment infrastructures (e.g., UPS (Uninterruptable Power Systems), Generator, AHU (Air Handling Units))
  • 6 years of relevant finance, or business planning and/or workforce management work experience with an analytical foundation
  • Enterprise-level experience in Datacenter infrastructure (e.g., UPS, Generator, AHU)
  • PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI and Microsoft Office skills

Data Center Operations Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $125,400 - $226,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $166,000 - $249,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 14, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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